Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream by James Morgan 1.03

Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream
James Morgan
Free Press
March 29, 2005

Who hasnt had the fanthasy of leaving his or her old life behind to start over? What would happen if you gave up your job, city, state, and routine to move to another part of the world? Critically acclaimed writer and aspiring painter James Morgan does just that. Risking everything, he and his wife shed their old, settled life in a lovingly restored house in Little Rock, Arkansas, to travel in the footsteps of Morgans hero, the painter Henri Matisse, and to find inspiration in Matisses fierce struggle to live the life he knew he had to live. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part biography of Matisse, Chasing Matisse proves that you dont have to be wealthy to live the life you want; you just have to want it enough. Morgans riveting journey of self-discovery takes him, and us, from the earthy, brooding Picardy of Matisses youth all the way to the luminous Nice of the painters final years. For Matisse, living was an art, and he never stopped striving, never stopped creating, never stopped growing, never stopped reinventing himself. "The artist," he said, "must look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time." Thats the inspiring message of renewal that comes through on every page of Chasing Matisse. Funny, sad, and defiantly hopeful, this is a book that restores our faith in the possibility of dreams.

About the Author
James Morgan is the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Distance to the Moon and the critically acclaimed If These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House. He also collaborated with Virginia Kelley, President Clintons mother, on her bestselling autobiography, Leading with My Heart. Morgans articles and essays have appeared in numerous national media, including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post Magazine, Mens Journal, and National Geographic Traveler. He and his wife now live in Paris.Visit www.chasingmatisse.com

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